Posted 29 June 2012 - 10:14 PM

No mechanical changes for Mages. Just more throughput. It will be entertaining to see what the consensus is on who gets tier first. Currently, I think it has to be the healers.

That probably depends on what the fights are going to be all about during progression. If they're DPS races or if there are no healing issues overall and more DPS would end it all quicker, then I don't think the healers should get a free pass

Posted 24 August 2012 - 10:43 PM

The bonusses of T14 of mages has chanced.first one is now arcane missles instead of barrages and the dmg of that is increased by 7%, pyroblast by 8% and ice lances by 12% (that's for 2set)
for 4set the next things chanced: increase dmg bonus by arcane power by 10% (down from 15%), reduce cooldown by icy veins by 50% (up from 45%) and the cd of combustion is still 20%
Also i wanne clear out that the t13 4th set also chances: Instead of being a fixed amount of sec per stack it's now 5%.
PS i have no idea how to make it so you can see the spells if you mouse over them

Posted 14 November 2012 - 04:01 AM

Here is a question im yet to find answered...
Im a Fire mage, 489 in most slots. sha has not dropped my 496 tier for me - i have none.
with the release of HoF2 it is possible to get tier set.
is two-piece 483 better than two 489's? 8%pyro vs a decent loss of stats?
Cheers

Posted 14 November 2012 - 07:07 AM

Here is a question im yet to find answered...
Im a Fire mage, 489 in most slots. sha has not dropped my 496 tier for me - i have none.
with the release of HoF2 it is possible to get tier set.

is two-piece 483 better than two 489's? 8%pyro vs a decent loss of stats?

Cheers

"Don't forget that Normal difficulty Terrace of Endless Spring and the second half of Raid Finder difficulty Heart of Fear is opening this week! Heroic Terrace of Endless Spring and Raid Finder Terrace of Endless Spring open next week"Front page of MMO champ

Other than that I would suggest that 2 piece would be better than 489 gear. For me pyroblast makes up ~30% of raid damage, Increasing that by 5% -> ~1.5% total damage increase. Not to mention the potential for larger crits to improve my combustion (via greater ignites).

I don't believe two pieces having 6 ilvl higher will make up for ~2% total damage.

A lot of this will come down to testing once more and more people are actually able to attain this level of gear though. (Alternatively, if I was competent at using simcraft I could try and work it out, unfortunately, I am not )

Posted 14 November 2012 - 11:26 PM

"Don't forget that Normal difficulty Terrace of Endless Spring and the second half of Raid Finder difficulty Heart of Fear is opening this week! Heroic Terrace of Endless Spring and Raid Finder Terrace of Endless Spring open next week"Front page of MMO champ

Other than that I would suggest that 2 piece would be better than 489 gear. For me pyroblast makes up ~30% of raid damage, Increasing that by 5% -> ~1.5% total damage increase. Not to mention the potential for larger crits to improve my combustion (via greater ignites).

I don't believe two pieces having 6 ilvl higher will make up for ~2% total damage.

A lot of this will come down to testing once more and more people are actually able to attain this level of gear though. (Alternatively, if I was competent at using simcraft I could try and work it out, unfortunately, I am not )

not sure what you meant by quoting that? o_O
I am well aware that HoF part2 is out, hence my post

two set tier gives 8% pyro damage and pyro usually around 35-38% of my damage. looks like it will be better than two 489 pieces (even if they are itemised perfectly)

Ran HoF2 last night. Didnt get anything so wont be able to test
on a side note - that is a much harder raid to 'pug' lucky we queued as a guild and explained every fight to everyone otherwise it wouldve been a disaster!

Posted 11 December 2012 - 04:36 AM

would it be a dps gain to use the raid finder 483 set over 489s?
I play frost dps and have 3x 483 and 1x 494 set pieces but i also have a 489 i can swap for the set piece.
How much of a benefit is 50% cd on icy veins
Also whats a good haste rating to have with just some self buffs, i read earlier after 22% haste, frostbolts no longer benefit from the global cooldown reduction.
Another question what stat ratings should i use in ask mr robot, and where can i get an update list of these, do they change from patch to patch?

Posted 13 March 2013 - 12:14 AM

Sorry to necro - but i cant seem to find the information I am looking for.

Frost mage.
I have 4p t14 496. last week I got 528(shoulder) & 522(legs) pieces. I swapped out two of my tier pieces(496shoulder & 504legs) for these items as the stat upgrade seemed to outweigh 50% cd on IV... *Unfortuneately i dont have the chest piece to still keep my 4set + my thunderforged shoulders...

What I am looking for is the effective haste rating 4piece t14 gives.
and thus which is better dps new gear vs. 4piece.